Peter Lloyd hosts a discussion with Tim Wilson from the Institute for Public Affairs, ABC Online chief political writer Annabel Crabb, Dan Ilic from Hungry Beast and Professor Simon Jackman from the US Studies Centre.

New recommendations for grappling with the problems of remote Aboriginal communities could never be funded. It embodies the perennial romantic idealisation of Aboriginal society while overlooking the everyday reality.

It's routine to hear people say they hate politics and that they happily live without engaging it at any level, despite most amateur family/office politics being more brutal than anything the professionals have to offer.

Gary Johns: you should learn that rather than Aboriginal people learning to take their place in your society, you should gain the humility to acknowledge that we have built our society on the destruction of theirs.

Tim Palmer hosts a discussion with The Drum Online editor Jonathan Green, Peter Lewis from Essential Media, James Paterson from the Institute of Public Affairs and Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda.